You Are Studying Transcription in Two Different Unknown Systems

question 33

Multiple Choice

You are studying transcription in two different unknown systems. Select the experimental questions you could test that would allow you to definitively determine if the system is eukaryotic or prokaryotic.

• A) Does transcription in the system require a promoter?
• B) Does RNA capping occur?
• C) Does RNA splicing occur, and if so is it self-splicing?
• D) Does RNA tailing occur?
• E) How many RNA polymerases are present?

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